Eric McCorkleFeb 3

Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.

AI is cognitive suburbanization.

Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.

#AI #tech

Show threadbenFeb 4

@emc2 I don’t disagree with your analogy, but in practice I think the vast majority of anti-AI positions are already not ‘anti-tech’. The fact is that rejecting harmful technology is not the same thing as rejecting technology.

CFCs or asbestos come to mind, for example: things where the harm outweighs the benefit.

Show threadEric McCorkle
@benjamineskola yeah that's what I'm trying to do: find the words to differentiate the anti-tech positions from the more considered technoprogressive ones.
Feb 4 at 5:36pmWeb
Show threadbenFeb 4
@emc2 apologies if I’ve focused on an irrelevant detail of your initial post, but the way you said “there is an argument that isn’t anti-tech” made it seem as if this was novel/unique. But actually I think the vast majority of anti-AI arguments aren’t anti-tech, and the anti-tech ones are extremely niche.